As an MTN operating company, our mission is to make sure everyone is connected securely and make the highways of telecommunication accessible and available across the region. We are an African born company and located in Africa and the Middle East, close to our core customers.Īll our products reflect the needs of this evolving market. MTN GlobalConnect is the wholesale arm of the MTN Group – a leading emerging-market telecommunications group operating with telecoms licences in 21 countries across Africa and the Middle East and a subscriber base of 244 million customers. Our core belief as the MTN Group is that everyone deserves the benefits of a modern connected life. We see a big blue ocean as an immediate opportunity to partner with enterprises or third-party players who want scale their market entry. MTN GlobalConnect is your doorway to the African continent in wholesale infrastructure, and we capitalise on the largest backbone in Africa – the MTN.Net backbone that caters for 244 million subscribers. What demand is MTN GlobalConnect seeing from this evolving market and how is it servicing the market? This is one of the reasons why we think of ourselves as global connectors. Like in many corners of the world, data consumption is growing rapidly, especially having a younger African population with a strong desire to embrace a modern connected way of life. Extending the infrastructure inland offers countries, from the general population, to government and non-government institutions and enterprises, the opportunity to access and enjoy the benefits of digitisation.
There is also a lot of effort going into extending capacity from sea into land. However, despite the commercial benefits, we see the difference connectivity has made to countries that need it the most, how the lives of people are changed every day by having access not only to standard telecom services but also to the benefits of a modern digital life like education and banking. With the African data explosion, this picture has changed drastically in the last couple of years, as fibre infrastructure grew to meet the high global demand of local sovereignty of data storage.Ĭontributing to the need and demand for fibre infrastructure in Africa is the continent’s attractiveness to big global players.
Ten years ago, the whole of Africa had as much fibre in the ground as a small European country like Luxembourg. What has been the main development in the African wholesale infrastructure business? As the continent fortifies its fibre hardware, Frédéric Schepens, CEO of MTN GlobalConnect, is leading the change, as João Marques Lima finds out.
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